Acting

John Richardson

Born January 19, 1934 · Worthing, Sussex, England, United Kingdom

Died January 5, 2021 · aged 86

John Richardson (January 19, 1934 - January 5, 2021) was an English actor, who appeared in movies from the 1950s until the 1990s. He appeared in many Italian films, including Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960). His best known role was perhaps in One Million Years B.C. (1966), in which he played a grunting caveman who fell in love with Raquel Welch. He had small roles in the remake of The 39 Steps (…

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The Church

The Church · 1989

In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.

Torso

MovieHorrorThriller

A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... · 1967

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

MovieRomanceAdventure

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

One Million Years B.C.

One Million Years B.C. · 1966

One Million Years B.C.

MovieAdventureFantasy

As the Earth wrestles with its agonizing birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from opposing clans fall in love, existing conventions are shattered forever as each tribe struggles for supremacy and Man embarks on his tortuous voyage of civilization.

Black Sunday

Black Sunday · 1960

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.

Sapphire

Sapphire · 1959

MovieMysteryCrime

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.

Frankenstein '80

Frankenstein '80 · 1972

Frankenstein '80

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.

Murder Obsession

Murder Obsession · 1981

Murder Obsession

MovieHorrorMystery

Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress.

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The Church

The Church · 1989

In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.

Architect

Torso

MovieHorrorThriller

A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.

Prof. Franz

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... · 1967

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

MovieRomanceAdventure

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

Dragone

One Million Years B.C.

One Million Years B.C. · 1966

One Million Years B.C.

MovieAdventureFantasy

As the Earth wrestles with its agonizing birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from opposing clans fall in love, existing conventions are shattered forever as each tribe struggles for supremacy and Man embarks on his tortuous voyage of civilization.

Tumak

Black Sunday

Black Sunday · 1960

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.

Dr. Andrej Gorobec / Dr. Andreas Gorobec

Sapphire

Sapphire · 1959

MovieMysteryCrime

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.

Student

Frankenstein '80

Frankenstein '80 · 1972

Frankenstein '80

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.

Karl Schein

Murder Obsession

Murder Obsession · 1981

Murder Obsession

MovieHorrorMystery

Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress.

Oliver

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever · 1970

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

MovieFantasyRomance

Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.

Robert Tentrees

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood · 1987

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

MovieDocumentary

A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.

Leo Vincey / Killikrates (archive footage)

The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen · 1960

The League of Gentlemen

MovieComedyCrime

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.

Elizabeth's Lover (uncredited)

Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment

Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment · 1973

Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment

A beautiful but poor young girl finds all the money and material goods she never had when she becomes the girlfriend of a crime boss, but soon learns that there is a price to be paid for that kind of life.

Lorenzo Viotto

She

MovieAdventureFantasy

The lost city of Kuma is ruled by the cruel, arrogant, beautiful queen, Ayesha, gifted with eternal life. She lures Leo Vincey into her world, seeing in him the reincarnation of the lover she long ago murdered in a fit of violent jealousy. Against all advice Leo is determined to stay and Ayesha persuades him to bathe in the flame of eternal youth... with disastrous consequences.

Leo Vincey

Pirates of Tortuga

Pirates of Tortuga · 1961

Pirates of Tortuga

MovieActionAdventure

After a lengthy voyage, Capt. Bart docks his ship in a London harbor and is given a new mission by British Admiralty: capture the notorious Henry Morgan, a pirate who has been wreaking havoc throughout the Caribbean. After recruiting some former shipmates for his crew, Capt. Bart sets sail in search of the infamous buccaneer, and is joined by a beautiful female stowaway in the process.

Percy

The Vengeance of She

The Vengeance of She · 1968

The Vengeance of She

MovieAdventureFantasy

Beautiful young European girl, Carol, is possessed by the spirit of Ayesha – “She Who Must be Obeyed” – and led to the lost city of Kuma, where she is destined to become queen.

Killikrates

Eyeball

Eyeball · 1975

MovieHorrorMystery

A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of its victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police trying to deduce which one of them is the killer.

Mark Burton

Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night · 1962

Tender Is the Night

MovieDramaRomance

1920s, the French Riviera: wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to psychiatrist Dick. A young American actress named Rosemary Hoyt arrives and is drawn into their circle, becoming romantically involved with the older, married Dick and disrupting the fragile balance of the group. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to another sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them all.

Young Man Being Photographed (uncredited)

Milner

MovieTV MovieDrama

Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors. The film follows Milner's fraught relationship with a lucrative client, Ron Jesson. When one of his offices goes up in flames, the press are convinced that Ron arranged the fire for insurance purposes. Milner also has to cope with an estranged wife, batty mother and debt ridden younger brother.

Edward

School of Thieves 2

School of Thieves 2 · 1987

School of Thieves 2

In this second episode Dalmazio and Egisto come, respectively, from the prison and the insane asylum. They risk a second arrest for their awkwardness so they return from their "uncle" who is willing to help them.

Ricco Gondoliere

Reflections in Black

Reflections in Black · 1975

Reflections in Black

MovieMysteryThriller

A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom one of the girls worked as a secretary, and it turns out that all the victims were friends of lawyer's wife Leonora.

Inspector Lavina

Nine Guests for a Crime

Nine Guests for a Crime · 1977

Nine Guests for a Crime

MovieMysteryThriller

Nine members of an extremely rich and hateful family have decided to have a reunion on a remote island in the Mediterranean. No sooner than their arrival, old grudges, resentments, and feuds make themselves known, along with allusions to some more macabre events in their past. But when their boats are sabotaged, thus stranding them without any connection to the mainland, it becomes clear that someone is not willing to let old wounds heal, a fact made all the more clear as bodies start to pile up...

Lorenzo

Execution

Execution · 1968

Clips, a bounty killer, is after one John Coler, who has fooled him, keeping all of a loot he should have shared with him. He finally catches his prey only to discover that the man is a Coler all right but not the expected one.

Bill Coler / John Coler

4 Billion in 4 Minutes

4 Billion in 4 Minutes · 1976

4 Billion in 4 Minutes

MovieActionCrime

Obscure, action-packed euro-crime yarn about an imprisoned genius who organizes a bank robbery of 4 billion Lire from behind bars. It's up to superhunk Antonio Sabato to save the day, foil the baddies and bed the chick. There are great car chases and wrecks, and an occasionally enjoyable synth score.

Francesco Vitale

A Nun at the Crossroads

A Nun at the Crossroads · 1967

A Nun at the Crossroads

During an uprising in the Belgian Congo, a convent of nuns are besieged and the Reverend Mother is killed and Sister Maria is raped. Returning to Belgium, Sister Maria finds out to her horror that she is pregnant. Rejected by her family and her sister, she is told by the Vatican that she is supposed to either give the baby to the church and still be a nun or keep the baby and leave the order. This film follows her decision.

Dr. Pierre Lemmon